Coming Events

Charober concert Saturday evening. "Evangeüne," Rice'a exiravagar.z', at be opera house, Jan. 25. Company A.s ball Feb. 22 is expected to be an unusually pleasant one. Rev. J. C. Eocleston, D. D , in Hobart hall, Jan. 26-28, on Dan té and Doré. Dr. E ïdy'a southern trip has been deayed a little, and he has consented to occupy thePresbyterian pulpit next Sunday. The young peoples' society of the Pres)yteiian church give a social next Saturday evening to the Young Men's Christian association of the U. of M. On account of Missionary meeting )eing held next Wtdnesday in Hobart 3all the regular Jfonthly Mothers' meetng will b fiostpooed until the last Wednesday in February. At Unity club, Monday evening, Mrs. Sunderland will give the first of a 'series of talks on great pictures; Prof. de Pont will present Victor Hugo, man and poet; and Mies Fannie Fisher will give illustrations from Dickens. The Tappan association anncrunces two discoursen, tobe given in the Presbyterian church, on Sunday, Jan. 29, by Rev. James F. Dtekie, of Detroit. In the morning the subject will be "the power of prayer," in the even:ng, "Savanarola, the prophetpreacher of Florence." A convention of Sunday School workers of Wa?htenaw county will be ïeld in the first Congregational church of Ypsilanti, Feb. 1, 1888. Three sessions on Wednesday with a preliminary meetng Tuesday evening Jan. 31. Prof. W. S. Perry is president, and E. R. E. Cowell is secretary. Cocker league next Monday evening will give an entertainment in the Sunday school room of the M. E. church, in w,hich Edward B.lbie and Mr?. Dr. A. H. Sylvester will give the music and Mrs. Ellen 3ou!; Carhart will read a paper on 'Queen U)ui89 of Prussia, the mother ot the emperor of G.'rmany." The second musicale, under auspices of the Unity club, will be given Feb. G, under the charge of R (i. Cele. Mr. Cole will read a paper on "The French School of CompoRition," which will be illustrated by Mr. Joseph Kitchen, of Detroit, organist, Misa Jessie Coolitt, of Toronto, soprano, assisted by local talent. The next meeting of the Chautauqua circle will be held next Tuesday evenine, Jan. 24, at the house of Mrs. Libby, 25 Thompson-st Historical events recorded during the past year will be given. Miss Roya will read an essey, "The constitution of the United States and its amendments." Miss Cowen will give a paper on Aaron Burr, and Mr. Blake will cive a history of Tennessee. On Feb. 2, Mr?. Noble, the well-known elocutionist and teacher of elocution in Detroit, will give an entertainment in the Ladies' library building, assisted by the Amphion club. Those who have heard Mrs. Noble know her to be a reader of great excellence, both in pathetic and comic parts. The Ladie9' library will seat 200, and it should be filled. It is largely for the bene6t of the association. A memorial service will be held in the Unitarian church next Sunday morning, under the auspices of the Unity club. The persons commemorated will be Henry Ward Beecher, William G. Eliot, D. D., late chancellor of Washington universiiy, Hon. John B. Finch, Mrs. Dinah Muloch Craik, Jenny Lind. and Doroihea Dix, all of whom died in 1887. Snort pnpers will be read or addresses given on the lives and characters of these persons and the services they have rendered to the world, by members of Unity club, viz., Philip W hitman, BeDJamin P. Bourland, Clt-ment Stiikney, Miss Mary E Thompson, Miss Ida A. Morrigh, aed Mrs. Sundeiland. In the eveaing Mrg. Sunderlaad will give the peventh of her course of lectures on the Books of the Bible. The third lecture in the Ladieg' courge of lectures at the Congresational church will be given in the Sunday schot 1 room, Friday evening, Jan. '20. by Judge N W. Cheever. Subject: "Mioeg in noithern Michigau." In addition to Judge Cheever's leclure, there will be special mn-ic by a stuJentg' quartette, and a special read ing of an inieresting poem of fifty eara ago, eniitled " Coluinbia," by Miss Figher. Judge Cheever made a persoual inspection ot the mines ot the upper península last gummer, and gave such an interegtirg account of what he uw and learned, in a parlor lecture on hia r-jturn, that it suggegted to Lis hule audi.nce the profit iht might be derived, if all our summor ers sbould teil in a winter course of lectures, the nteresting and important sights which their traveling brought to their eye=.